The San Diego Union-Tribune recently provided another demonstration of how the elimination of positions hurts the quality of a newspaper. Adopting a new pagination system with the stressed staff apparently didn’t help either.
“You can see another sign the new system needs tweaking when you check out the Obituary page and find one with the headline ‘Name Nameline’ and subtitle ‘This is a headline for a wire obituary;headline for wire obit,’” says NBC San Diego.
(We first saw this on Media Jobs Daily.)
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